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Sucker

noun

A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch.

A shoot arising from a plant's roots.

A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw).

Flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws.

Hard candy on a stick. Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop.

An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction.

Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps.

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"Sucker" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I am a gone sucker!" exclaimed he, and the words were scarcely out of his mouth when, he became nothing but a ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various

... the sucker in the pump, toned up a few cans of milk, corrected the acidity, and went into the house ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... Haustellum: a sucker: applied to that portion of the mouth of a sucking insect through which liquid food is drawn ...

— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith

... thought of tearing through the sucker rootlets one by one, and in another minute she had released him and was dragging him away ...

— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... dory, an' some lak bass, An' plaintee dey mus' have trout— An' w'ite feesh too, dere 's quite a few Not satisfy do widout— Very fon' of sucker some folk is, too, But for me, you can go an' cut De w'ole of dem t'roo w'at you call menu, So long as I get barbotte— Ho! Ho! for me ...

— The Voyageur and Other Poems • William Henry Drummond

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